Altes Rathaus
Altes Rathaus stands in Nuremberg as a historic city hall along the city’s Historic Mile. Its architecture brings together a late Gothic Ratsstube, Renaissance forms and Baroque portals. The complex is wheelchair accessible and centres on the grand Rathaussaal.
The oldest hall building rose between 1332 and 1340 under city architect Philipp Groß. Later additions created a courtyard, while Hans Beheim the Elder shaped the late Gothic Ratsstube. Albrecht Dürer oversaw the great hall’s paintings, once Europe’s largest wall and ceiling artwork.
Jakob Wolff the Younger designed the seventeenth-century Wolff’scher Bau as an Italian-style palace. War damage led to reconstruction in the 1950s, followed by interior restoration in the 1980s. Beneath the building, the Lochgefängnisse preserve medieval dungeons linked to Nuremberg’s judicial history.
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